The Courage Library
Our top 100 books for fueling your mind, growing your soul, and leading with courage.
Your organization has untapped advantaged
knowledge, talent, curiosity, creativity and courage
available right now to solve your most critical challenges
Unlock and sustain human potential, connection, energy and high performance.
Imagine for a moment your people, their happiness, meaning, purpose, belonging and impact were the priority focus of your organization? Imagine the new levels of collaboration, innovation, creativity and progress you would experience that would guide your business to new horizons.
We have learnt through years of systemic culture transformation initiatives that the more we can shift culture behaviors from slow, siloed, punishing and risk-adverse to collaborative, coordinated, agile and empowered – your culture will be able to take on bigger challenges and courageous opportunities, create more impact and produce greater return on an individual, team, organizational and societal level.
Create and activate explosive growth and impact at scale.
Your strategy is your guiding map to your future. It is where and how you channel your energy and focus. It is the everyday expression of your purpose. It is the living blueprint to the impact you are intentionally wanting to make. It is the shared language, behaviors and actions for those contributing to its realization. It holds us accountable to the decisions we make together and keeps us on the path when we lose our energy, clarity and purpose.
As you build and activate your strategy what is the lens through which you are taking action and making your decisions?
You currently have a choice of four futures ahead of you:
Liberate your creativity, insights and future possibilities, now.
This moment right now is the slowest rate of change you will ever experience again for the rest of your life. Your ability to navigate the unknown while nurturing your core requires continual creativity, teamwork, speed and courageous innovation. The current exponential business environment demands both purposeful and productive use of time, talent and resources in order to get critical work done, whether inside or outside your organization.
Collaboration is the key ingredient and Innovative is the key competency needed for your business to create breakthrough solutions to complex problems, develop new products, invigorate your brands, find efficient and effective ways to generate new wealth and impact.
The problem to overcome is rarely the shortage of creative ideas rather the ability to capture and harness creativity, knowledge and expertise, get organizational alignment, accelerate innovation output and productivity, and to have a consistent, reliable, accurate, disruptive and adaptable set of tools and resources for all employees.
Leverage technology to transform the future of your business.
As computing speed and performance doubles every year while the size and cost of technology shrinks at the same pace we have entered an era of limitless potential, access, creativity and possibilities. Every industry, service, product and person on this planet is being influenced by technology and the digitization of our daily lives.
Agility, adaptability, innovation and purpose are key elements to thriving in the digital age.
Your future requires that your leaders and Organization leverage technology and the digital tools and resources that are now abundantly available to shift the why, the way and the how you do business today and in the future.
Imagine the possibilities of solving the world’s greatest challenges while doing good for people, planet and your business simultaneously. It is possible today. What is required is that your organization takes the critical steps to embrace the digital revolution and its digital future.
Create the value you need to thrive in the rapidly changing world.
We are moving into a very different world, and if you are feeling a little disoriented in the current environment, in a future swimming with environmental, social, and governance issues that don’t seem to match with your current understanding of what business is, its place in the world, and the jobs-to-be-done, you are not alone; the mental model is shifting.
There is unlearning to be done. There are new definitions of “value” that organizations are being held accountable for. And, importantly there are huge opportunities for those willing to lead the way.
We know the purpose of an organization is to create value. The role of good leadership is to ensure that the company continues to create, and therefore have, value. The ESG future is on our doorstep, and we are needing to ask ourselves the very critical question:
“What will be our Right-to-Exist as an organization in the world that we are moving into?”
Where do we need to create the “value” of the new ESG conscious future, and what do we need to sunset to the history books.
Our top 100 books for fueling your mind, growing your soul, and leading with courage.
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